Hazel Kahan interviews Eleanor Morris Lingo, 89-year old native of Southold who tells us her story about being an African-American woman living and working through the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s—in Bridgeport, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Greenport—until the present day. North Fork Works programs are archived.

John Coequyt, Global Climate Policy director with the Sierra Club talks about the importance of the U.N. Climate Summit meeting that began Monday, November 30 in Paris, and the role of the global climate movement in pressuring governments to take concrete urgent action to address the causes of global warming.

John Quigley, professor emeritus of international law at Ohio State University and author of, “The Ruses for War,” discusses Turkey’s recent shooting down of a Russian jet fighter, both the motivation and repercussions — as well as prospects for world and regional powers to come together to defeat ISIS in Syria and Iraq, as the government of French President François Hollande has called for.

An excerpt of Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), speech on democratic socialism. He cited President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Second Bill of Rights,” a program for economic and social justice advanced in 1944 but not yet achieved. Other topics included his ideas for defeating ISIS and whether or not the U.S. should accept Syrian war refugees following the terrorist attacks in Paris.

We talk with environmental writer David Gessner about his new book, All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West. We also re-air a clip from a previous interview with Gessner about his last book, My Green Manifesto. And finally, we continue our Thanksgiving tradition: Marge Bruchac’s telling of the true story of the holiday.

Join us for the monthly In Context War Report. After reviewing the West’s military response to the latest ISIS terror attacks, we discuss what the Arab nations can contribute to the war against ISIS. Website: www.incontextreport.com. Email: ken@mdrtalk.org.

Beau Grosscup, author of several books on terrorism including, “The Newest Explosions of Terrorism“, and most recently, “Strategic Terror: The Politics and Ethics of Aerial Bombardment.” He discusses the role of U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies in supporting ISIS as well as funding and promoting their extremist Wahhabi Islamist theology worldwide. He’ll also identify alternative U.S. policies that could succeed in diminishing the growth of extremist terrorist groups and the cycles of vengeance and violence.

Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and author of the just published book, “Understanding ISIS & the New Global War on Terror: A Primer,” talks about her recent article, “After the Paris Attacks, a Call for Justice – Not Vengeance.”

An excerpt of Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), speech on democratic socialism. He cited President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Second Bill of Rights,” a program for economic and social justice advanced in 1944 but not yet achieved. Other topics included his ideas for defeating ISIS and whether or not the U.S. should accept Syrian war refugees following the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Nick Nyhart, President and CEO of Every Voice Center, reviews recent election results in Maine and Seattle re: support for publicly funded electoral systems. He’ll also discuss a recent proposal in Connecticut, now withdrawn, that would have ended the publicly financed Citizens’ Election Program in the state.

Feminist sociologist and gender researcher Michael Kimmel talks about the aggrieved entitlement of so many white men in America. His book is Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era. Then, we look at the rise of rape culture in America with Kate Harding. Her book is Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do about It.

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